Events
Monthly luncheon meetings for CincyIP are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 11:45-1:30. Additional meetings will be scheduled pending interest and speaker availability.
Date: September 9, 2008
Event: TIPLA Meeting - Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: September 9, 2008 – 11:45 a.m.
Speaker: Jean H. Jackson, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, Section 337
U.S. International Trade Commission
The September luncheon meeting of the Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association will be held at the Toledo Club on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
We are very pleased to announce that our featured speaker will be Ms. Jean H. Jackson, Assistant General Counsel, Section 337, with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). She began her work in Section 337 as a staff attorney in the Office of General Counsel in 1985, and has
held her present position since July 2004. Prior to working at the ITC, Ms. Jackson was a patent examiner in a biotechnology art unit at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The presentation has been certified by the Ohio Supreme Court for 1.0 CLE hours.
Please be aware that our meeting format has been modified this year. The regular luncheon will now begin at 11:45 a.m. and end at approximately 12:45 p.m. The CLE program will commence immediately following the completion of the luncheon. Members are welcome to attend either or both portions of the regular meeting, as time permits. To receive CLE credit, members are required to be present for the full CLE program and to submit a registration form accompanied by the discounted fee.
Our lunch will be an old fashioned Swiss steak with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and a California blend of broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower. Dessert will be tira misu.
Please confirm your intent to attend the September luncheon with Jake Ward (telephone (419) 874-1100 or email: toledoipla@gmail.com) by Monday, September 8, 2008, before 2:00 PM.
For more info visit their website at TIPLA
Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association
Date: September 10-11 2008
Event: All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property (AOAIOIP) - Cincinnati
The 18th All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property
Location: Northern Kentucky Convention Center
Program
8 to 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.Greetings/Opening Remarks
Cincinnati: Kenneth B. Germain, Esq.,Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, Cincinnati, OH Program Chair
Phillip J. Schworer, Esq., Frost Brown Todd, Cincinnati, OH Pres., Cincinnati Bar Assn.
Ria Farrell Schalnat, Esq., Frost Brown Todd, Cincinnati, OH Pres., Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Assn.
Recent Developments
Moderated by: Marianne Dressman, Esq. Procter & Gamble; Cincinnati, OH
8:45 a.m. Patent Law Developments
Tom Irving, Esq. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; Washington, DC
9:35 a.m. Copyright Law Developments
Katherine C. Spelman, Esq. Cobalt LLP; Berkeley, CA
10:25 – 10:40 a.m. BREAK
Moderated by: Ms. Anne H. Chasser University of Cincinnati, Intellectual Property Office; Cincinnati, OH
10:40 a.m. Trademark Law Developments
Kenneth B. Germain, Esq. Greenebaum Doll & McDonald; Cincinnati, OH University of Dayton School of Law; Dayton, OH
11:30 a.m. The Science of (Ad) Substantiation
Lesley Fair, Esq. Federal Trade Commission; Washington, DC
12:20 – 1:30 p.m. LUNCH
(included in program registration fee)
SPECIAL SESSIONS
1:30– 3:15 p.m.
PATENTS
Moderated by: David E. Schmit, Esq. Frost Brown Todd; Cincinnati, OH
1:30 p.m. Design Patents: Egyptian Goddess Exposed . . . in the Buff(er)!
Perry Saidman, Esq. Saidman Design Law Group; Silver Spring, MD
2:15 p.m. European Patent Strategies
Andreas Rutetzki, Esq. Müller-Boré & Partner; Munich, Germany
TRADEMARKS
Moderated by: Roger H. Bora, Esq. Thompson Hine; Dayton, OH
1:30 p.m. Internet Advertising: Trademarks as Keywords
Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie Chicago-Kent College of Law; Chicago, IL
2:15 p.m. Parody Pertaining to Trademarks: Permitted or Prohibited?
Dickerson M. Downing, Esq. Crowell & Moring; New York, NY
3 – 3:15 p.m. BREAK
General Session II
3:15–5 p.m.
Moderated by:
Lori Krafte, Esq. Greenebaum Doll & McDonald; Cincinnati, OH
3:15 p.m. The Right of Publicity in the Internet Age
Rick Kurnit, Esq. Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; New York, NY
4 p.m. Ethical Issues in Dealing with the Government
Bernard J. Knight Jr. Assistant General Counsel, U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington, D.C.
5 p.m. Adjourn
Registration Information Click here for event brochure and registration information
Event Cost:
Member/By August 22 $310.00
Non-Member/By August 22 $365.00
Member/After August 22 $350.00
Non-Member/After August 22 $405.00
Law Student/By August 22 $25.00
Law Student/After August 22 $65.00
Event Date: 9/10/2008
Event Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location:
Northern Kentucky Convention Center
One W. RiverCenter Blvd.
Covington, Kentucky 41011
For Directions, please call (859) 392-7704 or visit www.nkkycc.com.
Convenient parking is available for $5 at the Kenton County Garage, which is located across the street from the Convention Center on Madison Avenue. A $5 rate applies for individuals arriving by 9 a.m. and leaving between 3 –6 p.m..
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Event: A CincyIP Happy Hour and Charity Event
Come join us to welcome Proctor & Gamble IP attorneys downtown and to raise scholarship money for an IP-oriented camp for a child.
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM.
Event Description:
Welcome new-to-downtown P&G’ers!!
Support a scholarship for a child to attend Camp Invention. Five dollars of the fifteen dollar purchase price will go to a fund to purchase a scholarship for a child to attend Camp Invention (http://www.invent.org/camp/default.aspx). Camp Innovation is a subsidiary of the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Foundation which includes the I Can Invent: Fantasy Inventions & Complicated Machines.
Location: City Cellers - 908 Race Street (near the Northeast corner of 9th and Race) - free parking is available
No RSVP Needed
Add to your Calendar: Click here
Cost: $15 per person (members and non-members)
Pay at the door
Covers four tastes
Credit cards accepted
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Event: The Examiner’s Perspective on Patent and Trademark Prosecution
Topic: The Examiner’s Perspective on Patent and Trademark Prosecution
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:45-1:30
Speakers:
The panel will include former trademark examiners Rene LaForte Guess (counsel at P&G), Roger H. Bora (Thompson Hine), and Sarah Otte Graber (Wood, Herron & Evans). Former patent examiner will include Eric Shaffer (Fay Sharpe) and Judith A. Cothorn (Frost Brown Todd, LLC). Harry J. Guttman (Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP), a former patent examiner in the Chemical/Biotech area, will moderate.
Event Description:
This event will attempt to convey the examiner’s perspective of the patent and trademark examination process using a panel of former patent and trademark examiners. The event will start with brief presentation of the Patent and Trademark organization, examiner training, the production system, and general tips on how to interact with an examiner. The panel will endeavor to not only help explain PTO policy and procedure, and how these might influence examiner-practitioner interactions, but also will try to reflect on the different examiner styles and how to effectively interact with examiners.
CLE Credit: One credit hour of General CLE for OH (approval pending).
Location: TBD
Register Deadline: Noon - Friday, October 10, 2008.
Link to Register: http://www.cincyip.org/index.php/site/events/ex_examiner_panel/
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Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Event: Egyptian Goddess & Design Patents.
Speakers: Glenn Bellamy and Carrie Shufflebarger.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Event: Holiday Luncheon & Second Life
Speakers: Anne Chasser and Lynda Roesch.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Event: Revision of Local Patent Rules
Speakers: David Mancino and Kevin Kirsch.
Time: 11:45am
Location: Cincinnati Bar Association
Date: Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Event: Ethics
Panel Discussion.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Event: Digital Sampling
Speaker: Tracy Reilly.
Tracy Reilly, who teaches Real Property and Intellectual Property courses, was most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where she worked in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, advertising, Internet, and e-commerce law. Previously, she was an associate at Garfinkle & Associates, practicing entertainment, intellectual property, marketing, and promotional law. Her clients have included Kraft, Sara Lee, Kellogg, Honeywell, Madison Dearborn Partners, United Airlines, the Chicago Sun -Times, Rand McNally, and the estates of gospel star Mahalia Jackson and Charles Stepney, producer for Earth, Wind & Fire.
Prof. Reilly also has experience as an adjunct professor at the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana, the University of Chicago Graham School of Business, and Lewis University in Illinois. She clerked for the Honorable Wayne R. Andersen in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for the Honorable Anne M. Burke in the Appellate Court of Illinois.
She serves on the board of the Theatre Museum in New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of Broadway. She has also served as Vice-Chair of the Entertainment Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. Her scholarship is focused in the areas of copyright and trademark law.
Topic:
Since the emergence of digital sampling technology in the 1970’s, courts and legal scholars alike have failed to fully appreciate the true nature and consequences of allowing legally unchecked digital sampling—that is, until the recent Sixth Circuit decision in Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, holding that defendants’ unlicensed sampling of three notes of a copyrighted sound recording constituted a per se infringement. This decision marked the first time a court hearing a sampling case truly discerned the subtle but existent differences between sampling a musical composition and sampling a sound recording, and applied the Copyright Act accordingly.
While the sampling technique is properly recognized as an art form in and of itself, unethical and unlawful use of a certain kind and/or a certain amount of a sampled musician’s prior work amounts to copyright infringement if the owner of the sound recording that has been sampled has not consented to such use. This presentationwill provide an overview of the history and continued growth of the modern technology that enables what is known as digital sampling and discuss the response of the courts and the music industry to sampling and the courts’ various and inconsistent attempts to reconcile sampling practices with the current language of the Copyright Act and other laws, including the Bridgeport Music case. Finally, a summary of the continuing moral and ethical debate in the music industry over whether sampling is “art” or merely “theft.”
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Event: Annual Elections 2009
Time: 11:45am
Location: Frost Brown Todd
Date: Tuesday May 12, 2009
Event: Cost Management and Business Issues in Foreign IP prosecution and enforcement
Cost Management and Business Issues in Foreign IP prosecution and enforcement – in house and outside counsel perspective.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Event: PATENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET ACQUISITIONS FROM DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
PATENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET ACQUISITIONS FROM DISTRESSED BUSINESSES – STRUCTURING AND PRESERVING THE ACQUISITION FOR MAXIMUM VALUE AND MINIMUM EXPOSURE
Speaker: Richard Ferrell
Time: 11:45am
Date: July 2009
Event: Quad City IP Meeting
Proposed Topic: Addresses by the Commisioners of Patents, Trademarks, and the Register of Copyrights
Date: August 11, 2009
Event: Judge’s Dinner
Time: 6pm
Date: September 2009
Event: AOAIOIP
Location and exact date to be determined.